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Originally Posted by wittynickname
The biggest hurdle to higher education is cost. Democrats had plans for that in their platform, Republicans don't. Yet another example of these same groups voting against their own best interests in hopes of going back to the good old days.
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The Democrats solution was to give students more money to give to colleges. The real problem is that the cost of post-secondary education has been increasing at more than twice the rate of inflation for more than 30 years now. Nobody can really give any good reason why this is something we just have to accept.
Is the quality or value of post-secondary education better than it was 40 years ago?
Why hasn't the massive increase in enrolment brought costs down, the way you would expect with economies of scale?
Why are we still using a 200 year old model of delivering education - sitting in theatres being lectured by a professor reading from his notes - when technology could dramatically reduce the costs involved?
The post-secondary education sector has deeply entrenched interests who are cling to an anachronistic model out of self-interest. Uprooting those interests is where the solution lies, not in throwing more money down the rat-hole.